2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 08/30/2010 01:14:42 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 08/26/2010 01:28 PM, JD wrote:
> >   On 08/26/2010 09:29 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> >   
> >> On 08/26/2010 09:06:33 AM, James Mckenzie wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Geoffrey Leach<geoff at hughes.net>  wrote
> >>>       
> >>>> Sent: Aug 26, 2010 8:37 AM
> >>>> To: Fedora List<fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >>>> Subject: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT
> >>>>
> >>>> The newly-released kernel, 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE, wakes up 
> a
> >>>>         
> >>> few
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> seconds after being asked to sleep. 
> 2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686.PAE
> >>>> does not have this problem. Has anyone experienced this? And
> perhaps
> >>>> discovered a solution? (Bugzilla report against fc12 kernel for
> the
> >>>> same problem was ignored)
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> As an aside, is this for the same kernel release?  It might be
> nice
> >>> to
> >>> let them know it also affects Fedora Core 13.
> >>>       
> >> The FC13 bug is 627664. I mention the FC12 report there. Color me
> >> cynical, but I doubt that it will get much attention. OTOH, my
> >> experience suggests that its not release-specific.
> >>     
> > My impression was that kernel bugs are worked on only by
> > the mainline devs that release kernels on kernel.org. Is this
> > correct?
> > If it is, then it will be a long time for fedora to see a fix
> > for the kernel bug.
> >   
> This is not entirely true. Red Hat has a team of kernel people, and
> they
> will fig bugs in the red Hat kernels, and submit their fixes 
> upstream.
> Many times the major distros get bug fixes before they get into the
> mainline kernel. This is one of the nice things about Open Source.

FWIW, there's been a reply to my Bug 627664, requesting me to test 
against kernel-2.6.34.6-47.  Regretably the reply was not of the "We've 
fixed the problem" sort. Also, my report did not mention the problem 
with hiberhate, for which I've not been able to come up with any 
evidence.